This year, the “Fall Festival” at the Greenwich Historical Society will take place Sunday, Oct. 8 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., and will feature a Meet & Greet Walkaround Grover from Sesame Street, Touch-a-Truck construction equipment, a puppet show, games, crafts, food truck, and the perennially popular scarecrow competition. Throughout the event, visitors may see the “Jim and Jane Henson: Creative Work, Creative Play” exhibition, which closes after the Fall Festival, and take a family-friendly tour of Bush-Holley House
WonderSpark Puppets will perform “Fox Fables,” the story of a fox who loses his tail and seeks a new identity, in the Vanderbilt Education Center at 2 p.m.
Touch-a-Truck construction equipment will be available for people to explore throughout the event. Climb into an excavator, a yellow Mustang 1155 lull lift that framers use to transport materials to work areas, and a boom lift that framers use to reach elevated work areas.
The theme of this year’s scarecrow competition will be “friendly monsters” in honor of Sesame Street characters Grover and Oscar the Grouch, who appear in the current exhibition. Basic scarecrow building materials (straw, burlap bag, and armature/”bones”) are included in the fee, but participants are welcome to bring “accessories” to customize their creations. Prizes will be awarded in various categories.
“Jim and Jane Henson: Creative Work, Creative Play” closes at 4 p.m. on Oct. 8. The exhibition also includes a detailed doll house Jim Henson modeled on his Greenwich family home, original artwork by both Jim and Jane Henson, and more.
The program takes place at Bush-Holley Historic Site, 39 Strickland Rd. Admission: Children under 3: free; all other children under 18: $5; adults: $10; family: $25. Separate fee for the scarecrow competition: members: $10, nonmembers: $15. For more information, visit greenwichhistory.org
